DRDO begins installing Oxygen Plants in Delhi

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Sep

Prakshi Rawat

These medical oxygen plants have just a rate of flow of 1,000 ml / minute and therefore are intended to deal with only a surge in coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and subsequent oxygen shortages.

Using funds from Prime minister care funds in emergency cases,Defence research and development organization (DRDO) is constructing five medical oxygen plants. The defence ministry stated that the five medical oxygen plants will be placed in hospitals all across Delhi

AIIMS Trauma Centre, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital,Haryana will all receive the plants. Two of them arrived in Delhi on Tuesday, according to the ministry, and the implementation phase at AIIMS and RML Hospital has already started.

DRDO technical partner developed those oxygen plants. A total of 48 medical oxygen plants have already been ordered by the firm. Apart from these, the government has placed orders for 332 plants, with supply due to begin

According to the DRDO, these liquid oxygen plants are constructed at a flow rate of 1,000 l / min to address the increase in coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases and consequent oxygen constraints. At a flow rate of 5 l / min, the system is supposed to serve 190 patients and refill 195 cylinders each day.

The oxygen liquid plant was developed by DRDO and is based on the On Board Oxygen Generator. The ministry underlined that these plants will address oxygen delivery difficulties and assist Covid-19 patients in an emergency. Through its enterprises, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) too has acquired 120 medicinal oxygen plants.